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(NoModeL) F. J. FLOWERS.

Carriage Curtain Fastening.

No. 241,342. Patented May 10, I881.

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E l F UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS J. FLOWERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,342, dated May 10, 1881. Application filed J annary 20, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS J. FLOWERS, of New York city, in the county of New York, and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastenings for Carriage-Curtains; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective "iew of my wire guard or chafe before insertion within a cur tain; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the curtain after the insertion of said device, the position of the latter being indicated by dotted hues.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The design of my invention is to preventinjury to and to render durable the openings in carriage-curtains through which the fastenings-knobs pass; and to this end it consists in combining with theknob-openingof a carriagecurtain a wire guard or chafe, which surrounds said opening and stiffens and supports the leather or other material from which the curtain is made, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a wire frame having exteriorly a circular form, and provided at its center with an opening, a, that has the general form of a pear, and atits largest end has sufficient breadth to permit ot'the passage of the head I) of a carriage-knob,

' B. The guard A is placed over the knob-opening 0 of a curtain, O, with the largest end of its central opening, a, toward the edge of said curtain, and is secured in place by cementing over it a piece of material similar to that composing said curtain. The knob-opening c is wholly within the opening a of the frame A, and the latter supports and sustains the leather or other material of the curtain, and prevents said openingc from becoming torn or stretched out of shape, the strain being thrown upon the material for a considerable distance around thelatter, instead, as heretofore, of being borne wholly by the material at the outer end of such opening. The guard is easily made and applied, and adds but slightly to the cost of the curtains.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new In combination with the knob-opening of a carriage-curtain, a wire guard or chat'e-which surrounds said opening and stift'ens and supports the leather or other material from which the curtain is made, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of January, 1881.

FRANCIS J. FLOWERS. Witnesses:

HENRY G. lVIARTIN, BERTHA AYERS. 

